The Utah Lions XV All-Star teams have performed exceptionally well in Denver and brought home two of the 3 titles back to Utah. This was an incredible effort from the players and coaches who had to adept to a loss of the saturday pm games due to hail and lightning. 

The Lions XV Varsity boys, depsite a game delay due to hail and lightniing, were able to defeat Colorado (38-7) and Nebraska (19-12 ) to face Heartland of America (HOA) an All-Star travel squad from the Kansas City area in the finals. It was a close match with the Lions meading by a converted try at teh half ( 10-3). HOA scored next clsing the gap to 2 until Jake Kartchner ( SAHS) scored the final try to put the Lions a solid 9 points ahead with the final score of 17-8 over HOA.

The Lions XV JV Boys team came out strong initially defeating Colorado Springs by a hefty 56-0. That first game allowed the boys to finish gelling under a pressure game scenarios and complete the transistion from a group of all-stars into acohesive team. They woudl need it since they woudl be facing Texas in the next game. That game was much more difficult but the JV team took Texas down 25-15 in a hotly contested match that could have gone either way until the Lions sealed the deal with 2 quick tries that put them permanently ahead. In the finals, the Lions went up against the APEX all-star team out of Colorado. 45 minutes later, they walked out victorious with a 33-10 victory. All solid games with onemore team helping to establish dominance.

The Lions XV girls started out the tournament with a 70-0 romp over the Minnesota All-Star girls. The minnesota girls never had an idea of what hit them until the referee stopped the game 5 minutes early in a mercy killing of the game. The rainout then cuased pure havoc with the girls schedule, ultimately leading to the loss. The first game sunday was against the APEX all-star girls team. They provided a much stronger level of comeptition against the Lions but the girls agiain found themselves victorious defeating APEX 24-10 at full time.

The girls then had to play a back to back game against what was supposed ot be Colorado but ended up being NorCal after an unannouced switch by the Tourney officials. The coahes voiced thier complaints but were left with no choice, either play or walk away. The girls decided to play and face a large, strong, team of girls coming primarily from teh Amazon womens rugby club ( there is still some controversy about eligible players on tha team), where after a incredibly hard fought game the girls were just too exhausted and tired and succumbed to Nor Cal 19-12 in the final minutes of the game.